1996 Intercontinental Cup

1996 Intercontinental Cup
Date 26 November 1996
Venue National Stadium, Tokyo
Man of the Match Alessandro Del Piero (Juventus)
Referee Márcio Rezende de Freitas (Brazil)
Attendance 48,305

The 1996 Intercontinental Cup was a football match played on November 26, 1996, between Juventus, winners of the 1995–96 UEFA Champions League, and River Plate, winners of the 1996 Copa Libertadores. The match was played at the National Stadium in Tokyo. It was Juventus' third appearance into the competition, after the defeat in 1973 and the victory in 1985 against Argentinos Juniors, whereas it was River Plate's second appearance after the victory in 1986 against Steaua Bucharest.
Alessandro Del Piero was named as man of the match and got the only goal of the game when he shot right footed to the top of the net in the 81st minute.[1]

Match details

26 November 1996
19:15 UTC+9
Juventus Italy 1–0 Argentina River Plate
Del Piero  81' Report
National Stadium, Tokyo
Attendance: 48,305
Referee: Márcio Rezende de Freitas (Brazil)
Juventus
River Plate
GK 1 Italy Angelo Peruzzi
RB 3 Italy Moreno Torricelli YC 82'
CB 2 Italy Ciro Ferrara
CB 4Uruguay Paolo Montero YC 51'
LB 5 Italy Sergio Porrini YC 67'
CM 7 Italy Angelo Di Livio
CM 14 France Didier Deschamps
CM 18Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Vladimir Jugović YC 50'
AM 21France Zinédine Zidane YC 84'  89'
CF 10Italy Alessandro Del Piero
CF 9Croatia Alen Bokšić
Substitutes:
GK 12Italy Michelangelo Rampulla
DF 13Italy Mark Iuliano
MF 19Italy Attilio Lombardo
MF 20Italy Alessio Tacchinardi  89'
MF 26Italy Raffaele Ametrano
FW 11Italy Michele Padovano
FW 15Italy Christian Vieri
Manager:
Italy Marcello Lippi
GK 1 Argentina Roberto Bonano
RB 4 Argentina Hernán Díaz
CB 2 Paraguay Celso Ayala
CB 6 Argentina Eduardo Berizzo
LB 3 Argentina Juan Pablo Sorín
CM 8Argentina Roberto Monserrat
CM 5 Argentina Leonardo Astrada YC 38'
CM 11Argentina Sergio Berti  74'
AM 9Uruguay Enzo Francescoli
CF 10Argentina Ariel Ortega
CF 7 Argentina Julio Cruz  83'
Substitutes:
GK 12 Argentina Germán Burgos
DF 13 Argentina Guillermo Rivarola
MF 14 Argentina Marcelo Escudero
MF 15 Argentina Marcelo Gallardo
MF 16 Argentina Leonel Gancedo  74'
FW 17 Argentina Ramón Medina Bello
FW 18 Chile Marcelo Salas  83'
Manager:
Argentina Ramón Díaz

Man of the Match:
Alessandro Del Piero (Juventus)

See also

References

  1. "Toyota Cup - Most Valuable Player of the Match Award". Archived from the original on 14 April 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-05.
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